Organized crime has been part of Detroit since the days of Prohibition. From late in the 1910s, the Chicago mobs generally controlled Detroit, and local mobsters allied themselves with Al Capone and his organization. Capone relied on his Detroit allies during the battles with the North Side gang in the late 1920s; it was the Detroit mob that betrayed Bugs Moran and his men to Capone, leading to the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Detroit became one of the centers of Capone's empire during Prohibition. With its easy access to Canada, where alcohol remained legal, its mobsters and street gangs turned enormous profits importing and selling gin and beer. In fact, the first underground tunnel crossing the Detroit River was built by mosters, who pumped bathtub gin from Windsor to Detroit speakeasies throughout the 1920s.

The most well-known form of organized crime in America today is the Mafia, also known as La Cosa Nostra ("this thing of ours"). When most Americans refer to "organized crime," what they really mean is "the Mafia."

The precise origins of the Mafia are shrouded in mystery. The American Mafia can probably trace its beginnings to the Sicilian Mafia, which was "brought over" to this country by Italian immigrants. Initially the Mafia was a relatively minor organized crime group preying on Italian communities, but in the 1920s and 30s Prohibition made it much wealthier and more powerful, and encouraged the formation of larger, more formally-organized Mafia "families."

Even after Prohibition, the Mafia continued to thrive. Despite such setbacks as the Kefauver committee hearings of the early 1950s, the discovery of the Apalachin conference in 1957, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy's war on orgainzed crime in the 1960s, the Mafia remained powerful and rich. However, beginning in the 1980s, the FBI and Department of Justice began to score major successess against the Mafia using new federal criminal laws.

Present:

The Sicilian Mafia of Detroit pick up with the change in power after the death of Michael Piacesi, the former Sicilian Don of Detroit who was brutally murder. The new Don, Guglielmo Piacesi, now sits at the head of the table. Intent on not only getting revenge for the Don, but for his father and the attack against the Mafia.

But that isn't the only reason he seeks revenge against the Colombian Cartels. They took more than just a man he had come to respect in his father. They took the life of Giovanni Lascola, head of the Lascola Family and his daughter Ashley Lascola was currently missing. And now he was intent on taking yet more from the Colombian to end the war that brews between them.

Having learned even more about Don Piacesi's holding, Guglielmo has started to initiate the rejoining of several organizations. The gangs that also showed the Don respect were called up: The Eastside Mob, the Westside Mob, the River Gang, and the Purple Gang. The only one's to not respond to the calling being the N'Drangheta. Something that no doubt, sit uneasily on the Don's shoulders.

New blood of the Sicilian Mafia is being called in as well as the Russian Mafia.

The war between the Sicilian Mafia and the Colombian Cartels is steadily brewing, in these Final Nights.

Back drop history credited to Steve Long and DOJ